Episode 75: Dr Andrew Marshall (UniSQ and BoM)

Dr Andrew Marshall is Craig’s interview guest in this episode. Andrew is a Senior Research Fellow at University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) and has strong affiliations to the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) and is based in Hobart. He is also an Adjunct Senior Researcher in Oceans and Cryosphere at the University of Tasmania. To summarise Andrew’s broad area of expertise, his career to date has centred on ‘exploring drivers of global climate variability and extremes, on multi-week to multi-year timescales’. You will hear Andrew relate, very entertainingly, the early influences that put him on his path into climate science and onto his passion for research around the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), a global-scale feature of the tropical atmosphere. Andrew’s current work is in the Northern Australia Climate Program (NACP), which has as its primary aim ‘improving the capacity of the grazing industry to manage drought and climate risk across northern Australia’. Although this episode is not heavily marine 'flavoured', a lot of what Andrew talks about, through his interview, has strong connections to the marine environment.